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Tag Archives: greenhouse
Pre-season training
We are into March. The days are lengthening. The February seeds have germinated and are looking sprightly: the race to produce those early tomatoes has started and the chillis are up too. We need to make sure they are in … Continue reading
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Tagged ailsa craig, basil, bird bath, broad beans, chillis, frogs, frogspawn, greenhouse, hurst greenshaft, leeks, Nicotiana, peas, sweet million, tomatoes
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Veronica or Veronicastrum Virginicum?*
I read a good article by James Wong in the Grauniad this weekend in which he gave his four top tips for beginners in the garden. I never feel like I have a great well of knowledge about gardening, although … Continue reading
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Tagged ammi, chard, crown prince, elvis costello songs, fuck em, Germination, greenhouse, Guardian, James Wong, Latin, peas, potting on, slugs, snails, sparrows, squahs, squashes, streptocarpus, tomato, tomatoes, zinnia
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The Dry
Two weeks ago I started this post. I don’t know what got in the way of me completing it. Perhaps it was the end of term which passed in a whir of school trips, successive cover lessons involving repeat showings … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, blueberries, blueberry, carrots, cavolo nero, courgettes, french beans, greenhouse, hose pipe, hosepipe, kale, lettuce, mangetout, runner beans, Salad, sunflower, tomato, tomatoes
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Green Shoots
Back to a new term and the new garden as we prepare to put my father to rest on Monday. It has, of course, been a strange time – the combination of funeral arrangements, sorting The Old Man’s estate and … Continue reading
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Tagged cavolo nero, greenhouse, hen, potato, potatoes, potting shed, psb, purple sprouting, tomato, tomtoes
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Same Old Same Old
It’s been a while since I posted, which suggests that I have not done a great deal in the garden – which is true, and fills me with mild panic that I might be lagging behind in preparation for the … Continue reading
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Tagged blue ceday, chitting, Compost, greenhouse, parsnips, silver wedding boomerang, stent, storm doris, tulips, white sprouting
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Dead Air
It rained yesterday. Bucketloads. Which was a good thing. Not in the “It’ll do the garden good” kind of way, because the garden is plenty wet enough thanks. No – it gave us the excuse to stay indoors and watch … Continue reading
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Tagged ants, black spot, Bolt, cabbage white, caterpillars, cosmos, courgettes, Ennis-Hill, Evil, french beans, fruit cage, Gatlin, Gladiolae, Good, green beans, greenhouse, Johnson-Thompson, lawn, leeks, pennard plants, potatoes, psb, raspberries, rudbeckia, Salad, veronica
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Spring Clean
In the past two weeks we have had a major eclipse, the term has finished at school and Parliament has been dissolved to make way for the General Election. All worthy or exciting events, but frankly not as exciting for … Continue reading
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Tagged eclipse, greenhouse, higgledy garden, labrador, Nicotiana, pheasant, retriever, sweet peas
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Not Green Any More
Half term has arrived for me with the amazing coincidence of fine weather too. So we decided to clean the greenhouse. This time last year, Claire was in hospital undergoing her final chemotherapy and stem cell transplant, so even going … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden, Grandparent, greenhouse, Home, Landscaping, London, Outdoor Structures, Plant
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